I used to think that bots on Farcaster were problematic because of spam, but it's bigger than that.

If I respond to a bot, I feel like an idiot who wasted his time building a connection with a ChatGPT wrapper. 

It makes me suspicious of new users, and I tend to respond primarily to people I already know. This means that it's harder for genuine new users to build relationships on the network.

It could be fine for social *media*, but it's bad for the social *network*. 

What would be the ways to mitigate that?

Give up. The old social contract is over and the bots are a part of life now.

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feels like an ideal use for web of trust https://warpcast.com/w/0xf3b2a21a

i'm pretty sure just by going 2-6 connections away you can almost get most people and ignore most bots (and if you do get a lot of bots, some basic analysis should show you where they're coming from in your web pretty easily)

i will bang this drum until i die or it gets adopted in some capacity

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i will bang this drum until i die or it gets adopted in some capacity https://warpcast.com/w/0x1211d275

@dwr.eth two [long term] feature requests:

1/ web of trust (https://twitter.com/wminshew/status/1113700790034518017) - display casts & comments based on distance between accounts

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https://twitter.com/wminshew/status/1113700790034518017